REVEALING REVEAL: The Canucks Autism Network’s eponymous team endured a baleful season. But the organization itself anticipates quite the opposite when its Reveal gala occupies Rogers Arena on May 6. Team-owning family member Clara Aquilini and Christi Yassin will co-chair what is billed as “an Evening in Venice.” That won’t involve melting the rink and having 544 attendees float between 68 tables in gondolas. There will be ice, though, in raffle prizes of $38,800 diamond-chandelier earrings and an $11,500, 72-diamond bracelet donated by Britton Diamonds. The bijoux appeared during a reception at Nader and Mana Mobargha’s Moissonnier store where gala committee member Saeedeh Salem and husband Sean characteristically donated plenty of wine from their La Stella/Le Vieux Pin operation.

JUST DO IT: Twice this week city actress Tammy Gillis got to see herself starring in the feature film Menorca. Screening at Vancity Theatre as part of Canadian Film Week, it pictures Gillis as “a rebellious soccer mom … who won’t settle for domestic banality when casual sex is much more fun.” Viewers may or may not choose to emulate that role. Given our months of dreary wetness, though, several likely contacted their travel agents regarding the film’s title island off Spain’s Mediterranean coast.

But his inventive whimsicality is still clear in a Capture Photography Festival exhibition at Clark Drive’s Autoform dealership. Its title: I Will Not Shoot Any More Polaroid Pictures. Delighted to see Gallagher’s works on Autoform’s showroom walls to April 27, co-principal Mike Wood might be even happier to snag the artist’s 1957 Austin Healey 100-6 roadster for its sales floor.

STRAIGHT SHOOTER: Photographer Rob Straight’s five-decade exhibition will run at Horizons Gallery to April 30 as part of the citywide Capture festival. It’s likely the only one containing photos of two Nobel laureates, 1979’s Mother Teresa and 2016’s Bob Dylan. Straight is a second-generation Vancouver Sun alumnus whose late father, Hal, was sports and managing editor. Straight’s wide-ranging oeuvre includes a charming photograph of daughter Kelsey and son Destry on a mid-1990s Hernando Island beach. All grown up now, novelist Kelsey recently wrote the semi-autobiographical All This While F***ing. Destry, who played centre-left wing for Boston College, coaches midget hockey here.

NEVER AFTER: One city artist you won’t find in Vancouver’s 167-exhibitor Capture Photography Festival is Dina Goldstein. But as our show winds down, she’ll participate in the world’s purportedly largest such event that will open April 28. That’s Toronto’s 1,500-artist Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival. Goldstein’s Fallen Princesses series will show there at Gallery House May 11 to June 10. Her photo tableaus portray Cinderella, Rapunzel, Snow White and other characters after having missed their fairy tales’ usual happy endings.

GENERATION XXX: Douglas Coupland will receive the Lieutenant-Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence at the B.C. Book Prizes Gala on April 29. That will be exactly 30 years since he launched his writing career by filing an article titled Ace in the Hole to Vancouver magazine. It addressed the legal tribulations of former city art gallerist Doug Chrismas who had moved to Los Angeles. Three months later, another feature article titled Generation X started Coupland climbing fame’s ladder.

FRENCHY LEAVES: Better known than many now-vaunted chefs, maitre d’ Robert (Frenchy) Gagne doesn’t change jobs often. Nor does he move far. This week, he trotted one block to the Glowbal Group’s Coast restaurant from Joe Fortes, where he’s logged 26 years. Gagne did break that term by defecting to Granville Island’s SandBar for a year, but then-owner Bud Kanke’s irresistible offer brought him back. No word on his recent sweetener from Emad Yacoub, the executive chef who left Joe Fortes in 2009 to found Glowbal.

AS WE WERE: Reporters’ fondest memories can be stimulated by matters experienced in the course of duty. So it was when the Clavinova Nights Jazz Band played at the B.C. Sports Hall of Fame’s recent Banquet of Champions. Looking as though they’d just met at Port Coquitlam’s Archbishop Carney Regional Secondary, singer-keyboardist Jamie de Guia, sax player Kalen Dofher, bassist Anthony Maljavac and drummer Steven Pringle performed Fly Me to the Moon and other standards. Their Filipino-Estonian-Croatian-Canadian backgrounds differed from this reporter’s past combos. But the enthusiasm was the same, and the sight of a dress-suited young man playing tenor sax backed by a tight rhythm section was pure nostalgia and pure delight.

DOWN PARRYSCOPE: Onlookers may get shocks if protesting Mounties carelessly rip that insulating tape from their trousers.

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